Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 0439X
Anglo American PLC
19 June 2008
 

Anglo American plc (the "Company")

Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, LondonSW1Y 5AN

Registered number: 356413



Purchases of Ordinary Shares in the Company

The Company announces that on 18 June 2008, an independent company purchased 26,095 ordinary shares of the Company at prices between £33.95 and £34.24 per share. This purchase was made by an independent company to be funded by a wholly owned overseas subsidiary of the Company, which wholly owned subsidiary will have the right to nominate a transferee for such shares, and otherwise in accordance with arrangements substantially the same as those announced by the Company on 23 March 2006
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Anglo American plc currently holds 20,783,518 ordinary shares in treasury, and has 1,322,131,755 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) and the independent companies referred to in the announcement of 23 March 2006 together hold 112,141,985 ordinary shares, representing 8.48 per cent of Anglo American plc's ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).




Catherine Marshall

Companies Secretary

Anglo American plc

19 June 2008

























    


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